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title: Then he clapped his hands, and all the dishes were brought that they… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he clapped his hands, and all the dishes were brought that they had tasted in imagination before and during the repast, slaves sang and played on various instruments. Who acts: Barmecide, dishes, slaves. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22, with it
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 15

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Then he clapped his hands, and all the dishes were brought that they had tasted in imagination before and during the repast, slaves sang and played on various instruments.

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**Who acts:** Barmecide, dishes, slaves · **What happens:** clap, bring, taste, sing, play · **To what, where:** hands, dishes, imagination, various instruments

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Barmecide, dishes, slaves), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg128:22:15
# text = Then he clapped his hands, and all the dishes were brought that they had tasted in imagination before and during the repast, slaves sang and played on various instruments.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	clapped	clap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	tasted	taste	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	imagination	imagination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	before	before	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	during	during	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	repast	repast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	slaves	slave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	instruments	instrument	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clap** | past | Barmecide | Barmecide's hands |  |  | then |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme |
| 2 | **bring** | past · passive |  | all dishes |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **taste** | past · perfect | dishes *= dish* |  |  | imagination |  | before *property* | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in imagination=Location |
| 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | slaves |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **play** | past | slaves *not said here* |  |  | various instruments |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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